Harry pauling



PATBNTED SEPT. 29, 1903.

H. PAULING.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING GASES.

APPLEOATIOII FILED Pi. I. 1902.

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asz j V UNITED STATES- Patented September 29, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING GASES.

Sil-ICIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,921, dated September 2?, 1903. j

Appllexflun filed April 2. 1902- Berizl ls'o. 101-083. Ho model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY PAULING, engineer of names, a citizen of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, and a resident oE Brandon,

' of all kinds and the like which may contain liquids in a finely-divided condition separstely or several simultaneously to the effect of electric-spark discharges; The method .hithorto in use consisted in producing the electric spark in a space or chamber filled with the partihular gas or in a current of gas between two ordinary electrodes. Itwill be obvious that in this case't-he spark could only act upon a small quantity of gas at a time, and it 'rsimpossible to subject all parts of 'a given volume oi gas uniformly to the action of the electric-spark. v

The apparatus forming the object-of the present invention is based upon a process which enables the continuous treatment of gases and thelike by means of spark discharges in such a manner that every particle of the gas is compelled to come into contact with the spark. The said process consists, essentially, in the fact that by a suitable form of the electrodes betu 'cen which the spark is produced or by a suitable movement of the electrodes toward one another the sparking surface is drawn out in band shape and the gasesa're blown or sucked through the sparkgap so formed. A band-shaped sparking surface can be prod need, for instance, by allow ing the points between which the spark has to pass to make a rapid lateral displacement. The apparatus suitable for carrying out the above-described process and fcigming the ob ject of this invention is shown in the annexed drawings in elevation, Figurehnud in a crosssecticm, Fig. 2.

a represents a cylinder made (if-insulating material and fitted to a shaft (1, which is rotarily mounted and can be driven in any convenient manner. Around the cylinder (1 a wire 5, of conductive material, is wound in the form of a helix. The ends of this wire have conductive connection with the shaft b. At a suitable distance from the cylinder at a metal strip dis arranged parallel to the shaft b and corresponding in length to the cylinder (1. The strip (1 is connected with one of the poles of an induction-coil, while the other pole is connected' to the shaft 1) by means of brushes 1). e represents a set of nozzles parallel tothe strip (1 at a short distance therefrom and adapted to ;e supplied by s pipe 9, common to all. The whole is suitably incloscd in a cssingf.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: Thc cylinder 1 and wire 0 are connected with the poles of the induction-coil, and at that part where the distance between wire 0 and striprl is the least-(between m and in) the spark will pass or jump and will thus pass through the current of gas emitted from the,, opposite nozzle; On rotating the cylinder (1 in the direction of the arrow the distance be: tween trend as becomes groan while the point- 3 approaches the point so that a f ortheir spark can pass, and so on. If the speed of rotation of the cylindena is sutliciently great, the passage of the sparking from the wire c to strip (1 will take place in such rapid succession that between the cylinder 0; and strip d a continuous spark-baud is produced, so that every part of the gas passing from tho: nozzle e must necessarily come iutdnntact with the electric sparks.

In the apparatus described abuse the gases, gas mixtures, or vapors cau.be subjected to the treatment in a more or less cooled 0rhcatcd state and under normal, increased, or reduced pressure. They can also be saturatedwith .fiuel v-dividcd liquids, such as. water.

The temperature of the gases or vapors to be treated in this apparatus, as well as their pressure, changes according to the nature of no the gnsespr vapors and the nature of the products to be obtained. Having thus described'the nature of my invention, what I claim isstrip and the cylinder, means for mtaling the cylinder, means for blowing air through the nozzles and electric connections-1' between the strip, the shaft and a source of electricity, substantially as shown and described.

An apparatus for treating gases, vapers. and lhejlike by electric-spark discharges, comprising a cylinder of insulating material fastened upon a rotmily-mounted shaft, a conductive wire wound around the cylinder in the form of a helix, the ends of said wire being connected with the shaft, 3 metal strip arranged parallel to the shaft and at some distance from the cylinder, a set of nozzles arranged parallel L0 said strip at a short distance therefrom and half-way between the in presence of two witnesses. v

LARRY PAULING.

Witnesses:

\VOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY IiASPER.

In tcstimonyeelmrcof I aflix my'signatura 

